The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-01-06
Total j.. 1928, 226,OoO $ee, $4,000

Virginia -. S,0I4,OO0 3,3l4, 900
W.Virginia. s,365,000 100000
Total. .$129, 226,OOO $66,sl2,O00
If it were possible to give the fig
ures for 1884 it would appear that
that year antedated such enSerpri-
ses and that nearly the whole of it
all is crowded into the latter part
oil 1886. Some idea may be had of
the advance made in Tennessee by
the statement that Tennessee had
in 1883 only 4 furnaces that shipped
iron east and they shipped only
1000 tons, in 1885 she had only 3
furnaces and they shipped only
1000 tons east, and in 1856 she had
Y furnaces that shipped 22,175
tons east.
1t will be observed from the
above table that Tennessee ranks
foremost in the amount and per
cent. of increase of capital invested
in 1886. 1t amounts to almost ex-
actly 800 per cent. 1t is as marve-
lcus as it is gratifying to contem
plate. And yet this development is
just in it's inception. The finest
ore and iron is to be reached yet in
the Tennessee river counties and
the upper Cumberland counties,
and we are just beginning the work
OF inviting and locating other and
general manufacturing enterprises.
these things sound like fiction aid
we confess to some misgiving in
writing them, but every assertion
is backed up by actual facts and
figures and they doubly warrant
widest speculations of possible de-
velopment in the matter of diversi
fed manufacturing enterprise. 1t is
not a race between states Or sec
tiors. Alabama and Tennessee go
hand in hand and all the southern
states are pulling in the same d.
rection with will, while the world
looks on in establishment and men
and money are docking hitherward.
Included in the list of new enter
prises reported in the south during
1886 we're: % iron furnaces, 30 ice
factories, 6S toundries and machine
shops, many of them of large size, l
| Bessemer steel rail MILL, 20 insect
| laneols iron works, including iron
pipe works, bridge and holt works,
f! ETC.; stove foundries, "a gas
works, "a electric light companies,
IL agricultural implement facto
ries, TIA mining and quarrying
enterprises, l6 carriage and wagon
factories, 8 cotton mills, 29 furni-
ture factories, ~ water works, So
tobacco factories, 80 -four mills,
44S lumber mills. (not counting
small portable saw mills, including
saw and planning mills, sash and
door factories, stave, handle, hub
and spoke, shuttle block factories,
ETC., in addition to which there
was a large number Of miscellane-
Gus enterprises.
AS we write this article on paper
made north, with a pencil made
north, sharpened with knife made
| north, we glance around the room
on the mantel, the walls, the dress
ing bureau and every article Of or
nament or usefulness we can see is
| made at the north, and the types
| and the presses and the implem en- is
and the inks that print this comes
from the north, and the mail bag
that carries it to you came from the
north and you read 1t through
spectacles made north, and then we
turn to the following list Of enter
prises established and being organ
ICED that cover most of these artic-
les and our hearts bound with graf
ification at the thought that soop
we can furnish our homes and our
offices and our shops with the
things made at bone and the south
will no longer be a newer Of wood
for the north, but self-sustaining
and rich within herself, dispenser
instead of pensioner. The list of
new enterprises increases every day
and already includes foundries,
machine shops, steel works, cotton
and woolen mills, cotton seed oil
mills, cotton congresses, fruit CAM
ming factories, carriage and wagon
factories, agricultural implement
factories, flour mills, grist mills,
saw mills, planning mills, sash, door
and blind factories, shuttle facto-
ries, handle and spoke factories,
barrel factories, single mills, fur
niture factories, fertilizer factories,
stove foundrles, wire fence facto-
ries, lime works, soap factories, tan
neries, glass works, gas works,
whiting factories, distilleries, pot
teries, electric light works, marble
and slate quarrying companies, and
companies TO mine coal, iron ore,
gold, silver, mica, natural gas, etc.
1t will take time to cover all the
range of things we use and need
and the world wants and buys, but
they will come.
Pulaski is right in the very GEN.
ter of all of it. What shall she get
and how shall she get it?
We shall see.
Senator Whitthorne was hindered
from spending Christmas at home
and attending TO his boom at Nash
Vile by the illness of his youngest
son in Washington. The boy is
much better.